The Olde Grey Town

I have just returned home Kendal . Whats going on ?  Vacant shop fronts  , glorified pawning shops , bargain booze off licences , charity shops and gambling establishments . These are the new faces of our high street and this is in one of the top rated places to live in England . People really are skint . Our government has started talking up a recovery despite the truth " on the ground " . There is no recovery and never will be unless the person on the street has some disposable  income and there doesn't look to be much of that around , even in  " The Lakes "

The big question

Has the human being stopped evolving ? An evocative question raised by our resident naturalist of 60 years Sir David Attenborough . His thinking behind this is natural selection is no longer applicable to human beings . If a weak child is born modern medicine kicks in with incubators and defibrillators . 95 % of new borns now survive hence the weakest are passing on genes that should not be passed on . I suppose fertility treatments are to be included in this argument . I don't say this lightly either before someone puts the boot into me as my daughters birth was not exactly probable without a little help ....Darwin himself lost a child and wrestled with whether that was the design of natural selection or the will of God . Its an interesting question.....